Providing Hospitality: A Conversation with Becky Allender

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Continuing a conversation about hospitality, Dan invites his wife, Becky Allender, back to the podcast to recount a personal, life-changing experience that changed their perspective of hospitality. Sometimes it is assumed hospitality is setting a ‘perfect plate’ for guests, however, we need to remove ourselves from the idea that hospitality is simply entertainment. How are you engaging others at the grocery store, in your neighborhood, or at work? What does it mean to offer care and welcome from the heart? Throughout the episode you’ll hear more of Dan and Becky’s stories as well as how they are actively changing in order to become more hospitable in their day to day practices.

Listener Resources:

Read a blog post by Dr. Dan Allender titled “Forgotten Hospitality”

Listen to the first episode in podcast series “A Summer of Hospitality”

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.5	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn.
0:10.1	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.5	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.0	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:42.1	There are not many honors that I have in life as sweet as being able to do this podcast with you, my beloved wife. And so welcome, Becky, to the podcast on hospitality. Oh, it's really good to be back with you. And it's a great, a great topic for us, given
0:48.9	our lives. Yeah. Well, and I want to begin by what prompted this series. And I've written a bit of a
0:59.2	blog that you can find on our website. But the story is this. We've had for years, actually,
1:07.2	decades, a particular family unit that has cared for us and our lawn. And Lupe has a number of
1:18.6	folks who work for him. And one particular day was here. And again, the story is a lot longer than I'm about to make it.
1:28.6	But in the afternoon, my son-in-law, who was living with us, with our daughter and two granddaughters, went out to the garage to talk to my daughter and saw that there was a man lying underneath a truck
1:48.1	and ran over, noticed that he was breathing very...
1:54.0	He couldn't get a pulse.
1:55.4	Yeah, couldn't get a pulse.
1:56.9	Got our daughter Amanda, who is a nurse practitioner,
2:02.9	and they began to do CPR.
2:04.9	Well, first he came in.
2:12.0	It was a very unusual day where he was walking outside quite a bit, and usually he's working.
2:16.9	And that struck me as a strange thing, but he walked in and said, call 911. And then he actually called
2:20.4	911. So you can take it from there. Well, and the bottom line is, we don't know what caused him to
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